Let’s hear it for Kiele Sanchez. A Chicago native of Puerto Rican and French descent, she’s been pounding away at the Hollywood machine since she got here ten years ago–before that, in fact, when she competed in MTV’s the “Wanna Be a VH1?” in New York, back in 2000.
She made it to the top five finalists, but she didn’t win–and, of course, that didn’t stop her. Not much seems to stop Ms. Sanchez, in fact. The exposure on MTV got her and agent and a ticket to L.A., and it wasn’t long before she started landing roles in individual episodes and (sadly, at first, short-lived) series.
There was a time-travel drama called That Was Then on ABC and a sitcom called Married to the Kellys with Breckin Meyer,